2005 Eisner Award Winners
Best Short Story:
"Unfamiliar," by Evan Dorkin and Jill Thompson, in The Dark Horse Book of Witchcraft (Dark Horse Books)
Best Single Issue (or One-Shot):
Eightball #23: "The Death Ray," by Dan Clowes (Fantagraphics)
Best Serialized Story:
Fables #19-27: "March of the Wooden Soldiers," by Bill Willingham, Mark Buckingham, and Steve Leialoha (Vertigo/DC)
Best Continuing Series:
The Goon, by Eric Powell (Dark Horse)
Best Limited Series:
DC: The New Frontier, by Darwyn Cooke (DC)
Best New Series:
Ex Machina, by Brian K. Vaughan, Tony Harris, and Tom Fesiter (WildStorm/DC)
Best Publication for a Younger Audience:
Plastic Man, by Kyle Baker and Scott Morse (DC)
Best Humor Publication:
The Goon, by Eric Powell (Dark Horse)
Best Anthology:
Michael Chabon Presents The Amazing Adventures of the Escapist, edited by Diana Schutz and David Land (Dark Horse)
Best Digital Comic:
Mom's Cancer, by Brian Fies
Best Graphic Album-New:
The Originals, by Dave Gibbons (Vertigo/DC)
Best Graphic Album-Reprint:
Bone One Volume Edition, by Jeff Smith (Cartoon Books)
Best Archival Collection/Project:
The Complete Peanuts, edited by Gary Groth (Fantagraphics)
Best U.S. Edition of Foreign Material:
Buddha, vols. 3-4 by Osamu Tezuka (Vertical)
Best Writer:
Brian K. Vaughan, Y: The Last Man (Vertigo/DC) Ex Machina (WildStorm/DC) Runaways (Marvel)
Best Writer/Artist:
Paul Chadwick, Concrete: The Human Dilemma (Dark Horse)
Best Writer/Artist-Humor:
Kyle Baker, Plastic Man (DC) Kyle Baker, Cartoonist (Kyle Baker Publishing)
Best Penciller/Inker (tie):
John Cassaday, Astonishing X-Men (Marvel) Planetary (WildStorm/DC) I Am Legion: The Dancing Faun (Humanoids/DC) Frank Quitely, WE3 (Vertigo/DC)
Best Painter/Multimedia Artist (interior art):
Teddy Kristiansen, It's a Bird... (Vertigo/DC)
Best Coloring:
Dave Stewart, Daredevil, Ultimate X-Men, Ultimate Six, Captain America (Marvel; Conan, BPRD (Dark Horse; DC: The New Frontier (DC)
Best Lettering:
Todd Klein, Promethea; Tom Strong; Tom Strong's Terrific Tales (ABC) Wonder Woman (DC) Books of Magick: Life During Wartime; Fables; WE3 (Vertigo/DC) Creatures of the Night (Dark Horse)
Best Cover Artist:
James Jean, Fables (Vertigo/DC) Green Arrow, Batgirl (DC)
Talent Deserving of Wider Recognition:
Sean McKeever (A Waiting Place) Mary Jane; Inhumans; Sentinels)
Best Comics-Related Periodical:
Comic Book Artist, edited by Jon B. Cooke (Top Shelf)
Best Comics-Related Book:
Men of Tomorrow: Geeks, Gangsters, and the Birth of the Comic Book, by Gerard Jones (Basic Books)
Best Publication Design:
The Complete Peanuts, designed by Seth (Fantagraphics)
